#mickey’s very merry christmas party

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released photo of the mickey elf bucket that’s available this year for mickey’s very merry christmas party, starting nov 8th!

source - disney parks official instagram

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Had a Very Merry time at Magic Kingdom last Friday. It was so fun introducing my family to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party (which makes for an excellent early Christmas present).

[dorkyparksdad]

Food and Drink Guide to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party 2024

Get ready to celebrate the holiday season at Walt Disney World! It’s time to unwrap this year’s food and drink Guide to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party!  With over thirty new menu items, we’re already preparing a list of delicious treats we intend to get for our group. Check out the festive offerings in the list below! Main Street Bakery  Letter To Santa: Flourless chocolate cake, hot…

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Donald Duck with the 3 Caballeros @ Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party! 12.15.23 🎄🎅

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🎄 Once Upon a Christmastime Parade 2019 [x]

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Mary and Bert in mickeys very merry Christmas parade

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Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party 2017 — VoicePlay live performances

For their third and final year of residency at Disney World, the jolly fellows of VoicePlay returned with all the holiday favorites. The recordings below are from a handful of nights across the season, and all happen to feature J.None in the baritone spot. (They were getting very close to annoucing his official membership in the group by this point.) If you're missing Erik Winger, though, he and the other backup guys took the stage together early in the run.

Even though the boys only alternated between two setlists, it's fun to watch each performance to see and hear the little differences, particularly in the banter between the songs.

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setlist: "Here Comes Santa Claus"; [3:30] "My Two Front Teeth"; [7:25] "What's This?"; [10:10] introductions; [10:50] "Frosty the Snowman"; [13:15] "Santa and I Know It"

performance date: 12 November 2017

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setlist: [0:20] "Here Comes Santa Claus"; [3:35] "My Two Front Teeth"; [7:40] "What's This?"; [10:27] introductions; [11:11] "Frosty the Snowman"; [13:25] "Santa and I Know It"

performance date: 14 November 2017

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[Here's another recording from the other side of the stage with the banter removed.]

setlist: "Deck the Halls"; [2:05] "Holiday Road"; [4:45] "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas"; [7:25] "Christmas Don't Be Late"; [10:35] "Most of the Songs" medley

performance date: 14 Novemer 2017

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setlist: "Here Comes Santa Claus"; [3:10] "My Two Front Teeth"; [7:27] "What's This?"; [9:57] introductions; [10:55] "Frosty the Snowman"; [13:00] "Santa and I Know It"

performance date: 14 November 2017

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original song / performer: "Holiday Road" by Lindsay Buckingham

performance date: 7 December 2017

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original song / performer: "Christmas Don't Be Late" by Alvin & the Chipmunks

performance date: 7 December 2017

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original song / performer: "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas" by Bing Crosby as Jim Hardy and Marjorie Reynolds as Linda Mason in Holiday Inn (1942)

performance date: 7 December 2017

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title: "Most of the Songs" holiday medley

original songs / performers: [0:19] "Mele Kalikimaka" by Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters; [0:27] "Pat-a-pan", French / English carol; [0:33] "Deck the Halls", English carol; [0:39] "Frosty the Snowman" by Gene Autry; [0:43] "Carol of the Bells", English carol; [0:52] "Coventry Carol", English carol; [1:06] "Welcome Christmas" from How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966); [1:20] "Hava Nagila", Jewish folk song; [1:27] "I Have a Little Dreidel", children's Hannukah song; [1:33] "Angels We Have Heard on High", French / English carol; [2:00] "Up on the Housetop" by Gene Autry; [2:03] "Dominick the Donkey" by Lou Monte; [2:24] "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" by Gene Autry; [2:28] "Jingle Bells", American carol; [2:31] "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" from The Nutcracker; [3:03] "We Wish You a Merry Christmas", English carol

performance date: 7 December 2017

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setlist: J.None setting up in the control booth; [5:14] "Deck the Halls"; [7:15] "Holiday Road"; [9:50] "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas"; [12:30] "Christmas Don't Be Late"; [15:40] "Most of the Songs" medley; [20:05] J.None signing off

guest performer: Max Herskovitz (percussion)

performance date: 25 December 2017

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Trivia

The custom lyrics for "Christmas Don't Be Late" this year were: ♫ "Wanna eat some pumpkin pie" / "Tickets to The Last Jedi" ♫

Artist and fan Leon King made a visit toward the end of the run. He posted a fun clip from "Holiday Road" on Instagram. The sound got blown out because he was a little too close to a speaker, but it's still fun to watch the boys dancing and goofing around together.

J.None and Max had been in the American Music Machine cast together at Epcot until it closed earlier in the year.

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WDW - Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party

Having experienced the Christmas Parade at the Magic Kingdom in 1994 and the absolute enchantment on my little daughters faces as the last float came into view with all their favourite Disney Prince and Princesses waving and blowing kisses at the guests I know what a show Disney put on for their adoring fans.  Fast forward to 2024 and now there is a paid for show on selected dates that Magic…

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Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party

On our December Disney Trip, we experienced Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party for the first time! It was so much fun, take a look and let me know if you want to go to the party when it comes for 2023!

The Christmas tree in Town Square at the Magic Kingdom Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party Yesterday we shared with you part one of our trip report of our quick trip in December to Walt Disney World. If you missed it, you can check it out here. You may recall that we surprised my sister Robin with seeing her daughter and two of her granddaughters, and then we went resort hopping to look at some…

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[klapollo]

was imagining going to Mickey's very merry Christmas party with David during winter vacation and two adult tickets for one day is like 500 dollars hello?????????

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The cookie selection from this year’s Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party. Crowd favorite was the frosted gingerbread, but I always favor a good snickerdoodle.

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Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party Dates Announced for 2024

Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party returns for the 2024 holiday season! Nothing beats experiencing the joy and holiday spirit this separately ticketed event brings to Magic Kingdom Park.   Every night will be filled with festive cheer, from the beautifully decorated Main Street, U.S.A. to the enchanting holiday-themed attractions.  Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party is a limited capacity five…

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🎄 Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party at Disney World 2022 [x]

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Voiceplay Visuals - Christmas Don't Be Late (The Chipmunk Song)

VoicePlay didn't actually release a full-length Christmas song in 2021 (just a couple of Christmas Minis instead), and so we're jumping ahead to the 3rd of December, 2022, when VoicePlay released what may in fact be my favourite Christmas song cover of theirs ever!

As a group, VoicePlay have had quite a lot of experience with performing this song over the years, as it was a regular part of their setlist when they used to perform at Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party at Walt Disney World. If you wanna learn more about that, check out these posts by @jules-has-notes linked HERE and HERE (and I hope Jules doesn't mind me tagging them but seriously their blog has *so much* stuff about old VoicePlay stuff, further back than I go that's for sure!)

Anyway, the original arrangement for this song, i.e. the one VP used for live performances, was done by a guy called Chris Diaz, who is (was?) in an acapella group himself, but Geoff made quite a few alterations to the song/arrangement himself, and so both him and Chris are credited with the arrangement! Geoff was also in charge of the video, he co-directed it with Tony, and yes, he added additional music bits and original lyrics of his own, because of course he did 😄

And of course the song features the amazing DeeJay Young, but enough talking, let's get into this!

First of all, love the way VoicePlay started the song with the kinda "old-timey" effect on the visuals (and the audio too!). They did something similar for the start of Sh-Boom and In The Air Tonight, and did it for a brief moment in We're Good as well.

Second of all, do you recognise the set? You should! It's the same one Geoff used for his Way Down video, just with a bit of added Christmas flair!

Not the most perfect screenshot but I just had to give a shoutout for how Geoff suddenly runs into the shot. Like seriously neither words nor individual screencaps do it justice but I find it very amusing 😝

(Also, Eli is again weaing black sneakers with thick white soles)

Cesar as Alvin is literally perfect casting honestly. Like nobody else could do it better.

(Also Cesar was in fact genuinely filming stuff on his phone during this bit, and that footage got included in the BTS video for this cover, and it's just as entertaining and hilarious as you'd expect)

I want that shirt

DeeJay is looking pretty stylish there too! (And yes Cesar also looks great in his blazer)

Alright so Layne is Dave (the human guy character), Cesar is Alvin, Deejay is Theodore, Eli is Simon, and Geoff is... Geoff? 😂😅

"ALVIIINNNN!!!!!"

(*pfft*)

*ding*

(Yeah this video definitely still makes me laugh 😂)

"Alvin! Stop riffing so much and stick to the music!"

Unfair! DeeJay and Eli do heaps of riffing all the time! (And we love them for it, lol)

Also I don't know what the sheet music "says" in terms of the music notes, but I love that it at least appears to be a legit page of sheet music for the song, complete with VoicePlay logo at the top!

"So listen for those nine reindeer!"

Also it's not a visual thing, but given that quite a few reactors didn't seem to notice/realize it, I gotta point out that the sleigh bell/jingle bell sound here is very much done by Layne! Probably with a little bit of post-production effect, but still, very impressive!

"A brand new bottle of hair gel!"

"A bright green dress like ✨Tinkerbell!✨"

*PFFT*

This line is specifically a reference to the fact that they used to perform this song at Disney World, as I mentioned at the start, but this line has also been used in some of their older performances of it too I believe?

Also whenever I sing this song to myself, I literally can NEVER, sing the "bright green dress like Tinkerbell" line, because I always start laughing every time!

"Dooon't be la-ate!"

(I think he really wants that dress you guys 😉😝)

*sigh* He's so pretty and handsome, I love him (look, about 90% of my Voiceplay Visuals posts involve at least one moment of me pointing out how good Geoff looks! I apologise for nothing!)

(Also it took a decent bit of restraint for me to not include even more Geoff screenshots in this just because)

"So put your sleigh in- (so put your sleigh in its top gear!)"

I don't think I've actually noticed this bit before but damn Cesar ain't messing around! He wants presents NOW! 😂

"A tweet from Musk would make me grin!" (heavy grimacing)

I actually checked the lyrics for this song cover on Spotify (back before Spotify made lyrics available only to Premium users, rip), and this line is actually changed for the audio-only version it seems, to "a gift from mom would make me grin", which is fair, because the very faked sincerity of this line wouldn't convey as easily without the visuals.

"Front row seats to Hamilton!"

VoicePlay are no stranger to including references to modern day media stuff in their Christmas Don't Be Late performances, but this is also a not-super-subtle shoutout to the fact that DeeJay was on tour as a cast member in Hamilton! (And still is performing in Hamilton I believe?) He's been playing the role of Aaron Burr I believe? Which is very very impressive, shoutout to DeeJay!

"We can hardly wait!"

(Also hey is that a little Eli Eyebrow Raise I see?)

And I have to give a shoutout to the bridge section of this cover - another Geoff Castellucci original, it's so good! Fits in perfectly, as all his lyrics do! (Original song WHEN?)

"I've been so wonderful!"

I love how the responses of reactors to this moment have been a mix of "aww yes you have Cesar!" and "hmmm I'm not so sure (light-hearted) but I still love you regardless" 😄😁

Get it Cesar! Love the dancing!

Only just noticed Eli has the Hamilton booklet thing shoved in the back pocket of his jeans, lol

Cesar what are you doing? 😆

"Great job, chipmunks! Even you, Alvin! Now let's try it with some helium!"

*pfft*, what a way to end the video honestly

Geoff looks confused, Eli looks uncertain/doubtful (another Eli Eyebrow Raise!), DeeJay looks like he's either down for it or hasn't fully processed it, and Cesar looks HORRIFIED XD

(Also what would Geoff even sound like on helium when singing bass? Normal? /j 😂)

So that's Christmas Don't Be Late! VoicePlay turned a song that's really quite short, slow, and overall fairly forgettable, into an absolute bop and banger, and the video is super fun as well. Like seriously, this is one song that no one else has done or will do in the same way that VoicePlay has, and that's a big part of what I love about it! Until next time!